MPICH is a high-performance and portable implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard (MPI-1, MPI-2 and MPI-3). MPICH provides an MPI implementation that efficiently supports different computation and communication platforms including commodity clusters, high-speed networks (10 Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics), and proprietary high-end computing systems (Blue Gene, Cray). It enables research in MPI through a modular framework for other derived implementations.